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JOHN (DASHER) TROY, DETROIT, 1881 

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Patersox, X. T., ^lay 5, 1915- 

yiR. T. T. Troy, 

2774 Eighth Avenue. 
New York City. 

Dear Troy : 

[Mighty glad to get your letter, and am pleased to 
learn of the new venture, which I hope will pay you 
well. If any one is qualified for getting out such a book 
to teach the young fellows, you surely are well equipped 
from your long and active experience and then being 
in such close touch with the game ever since leaving the 
big league. 

I don't publish anything myself or have anything to 
sell, hence I have nothing to arrange for in the matter 
of advertising space in your book. 

When your book is published send a bundle of books 
over and I will present them to some of the '''future 
greats.^' 

I would be glad to have you attend our meetings here 
any time, and will fix you up with a good seat any time 
you can run over. 

With personal regards and best wishes. 
Cordially yours, 

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BY JOHN (DASHER) TROY 
One Time Major League Ball Player 
Th.e.re was a day when John (Dasher) Troy was one of 
the bright lights of the diamond. Advancing age has long 
since driven him from his favorite haunts. But, though, as 
he admits, he has ''had his day and that day is a long time 
past," still he has ''seen more baseball games than any 
othe player in the country," and remained throughout a 
close student and observer of the game. His observations 
in the form of little lessons to ambitious ball players, and 
illuminating side discourse to the public on inside baseball, 
form a series of unusual interest. 

REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD TIMER 
Suggestions to Would-be Ball Players — The Game in 
the Old Days — ^Hints on Inside Baseball. 

BASEBALL is a sport that people will never grow 
tired reading about. I suppose that even the 
old ball player, if he should start to tell them 
something about the game of his day, might in- 
terest them. At least I am going to make the effort, for 
I am an old ball player, who could once round the bases 
as fast as the best of them, and though I have had my 
day and it has passed a good while ago, I am still as 
closely bound to the diamond by interest as I was in 
my ypunger days when I was a professional ball player 
myself, . 

My object in breaking into print at my time of life/ 
isn't only to interest the public. I know that their 
interest has made basebah great. But while I realize 
and appreciate what the public have done^ and it has 
been a great work in baseball, my more immediate object 
is to. ^g,ive some f ew facts from my own experience 
and some lessons gleaned from my many years' obser- 
vation of baseball since I ceased to be a player myself, 
which might perhaps be of some value as friendly advice 

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and instruction to the young player who stands to-day 
where I stood nearly forty years ago. 

Perhaps the public may find some interest, too, in 
these few scattered lessons, as they are curious about 
what they call inside baseball, a term that has been 
coined of late years, though we of the old school used 
to practice what we may have known by a difl:erent 
name or never called by name at all. For the lessons 
which a young ball player must learn are, after all, 
only inside baseball of the most direct and, therefore, 
the most valuable kind. 

I cannot go on without a word of the old days when 
I was young and in the ranks. I see in my memory those 
old stars, remember how they used to play the game, 
the hardships they endured, and the scant recognition 
they ever received for their services. They are all gone 
now. But those old-timers, whatever their worth, made 
baseball. They had to contend with conditions that 
the young player of to-day knows nothing about. The 
game was a precarious proposition in those days, 
and the salary hst had no resemblance to that of the 
present. It was downright hard work, with all the 
dangers of the present game magnified tenfold and. 
little of the comforts of the present to ofifset the great 
hardships. And so I think it is not too much for me 
to claim for the old ball players a high place among 
the makers of baseball. They were hard working and 
honest, and the debt that baseball owes them for their 
service when the game was not yet established on its 
present important plane will perhaps never be appre- 
ciated in full. 

I have often wondered why it is that some of the 
oldtime ball players, who were stars in their day, have 
n'ever taken it upon themselves to tell the public and 
the ball players of the present what kind of a game 

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was played in those days. They owe it to the old days 
to down the impression that the public seems to have that 
the game is so far advancecl, particularly in pitching, 
that the old game could not come anywhere near it. 
This is a mistake, which I will maintain as long as I 
live, for I have seen both the modern and the oldtime 
game, and I know of my own experience how im- 
portant and valuable that old type of baseball actually 
was. 

There is a great distinction in my mind between base- 
ball that is reasonably good, and what I would call 
Major League baseball. My object is to try to teach 
the young player something of Major League baseball, 
for I too, well realize that the manager has no time 
and often no inclination to do this. He is too much 
occupied with looking out for his own position^ and 
goes on the theory that the player ought to get his 
experience and knowledge himself. So he will not usu- 
ally bother with a young fellow, no matter how bright 
or skillful he may be, unless he also knows the game 
pretty thoroughly as well. To my mind, many a young 
fellow with the makings of a star has failed on that 
very account, grown discouraged at the difficulty in 
his way, and gone into some other profession. 

I played baseball for many years, finally retiring 
from the active game when the present Polo Grounds 
opened up as the Brotherhood Baseball Park. Even 
then I went into business in the near neighborhood and 
also for many years had the bar and lunch privilege at 
the Polo Grounds. 

My peculiar position, I believe, has enabled me to 
see more baseball games than any other player in the 
country. And all that time I need not say I have been 
from habit and choice always a close observer and 
student of the game. 

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My first piece of advice to young fellows who are 
dreaming of becoming good ball players is this : If 
you have good eyesight, get into the game; if not. stay 
out, for you will never make a good ball player with 
that handicap. Eyesight isn't often spoken of among 
the talents of the ball player, but it is the first and 
most important thing. 

Along with excellent eyesight should go a good, quick 
and clear brain. Education is undoubtedly desirable, 
but it is not essential. I never had a very good edu- 
cation myself, and there are many star ball players, 
both of the old days and the present time, who could 
not claim to be educated men in the present acceptance 
of the term. But whatever his education or lack of 
education, baseball requires a man who is keen-witted 
and intelligent. And it demands of him that he keep 
his brain well conditioned and do nothing which shall 
impair his capacity to quickly grasp lessons Avhich fall 
under his observation and apply those lessons. That 
type of mind w^hich is not only quick and active, but is 
original, always trying something startling and new, 
is the highest type of baseball brain. I will have much 
more to say of this type, together with certain sug- 
gestions which I think should stimulate the student of 
the game to better effort- This in brief is the bedrock 
of eligibility to the game, for circumstances act just 
like a coach at college and training school in picking 
out the men who are best fitted for the school teams. 
A ball player may not have any coach to contend with, 
but he may be sure that circumstances will act in the 
long run with greater severity and strict justice than 
any coach could give. Whether or not he is fitted to 
become a ball player will stand out clearly by his own 
quaHfications, and the first two are, as I have indicated, 
excellent evesight and a clear, thinking brain. Later I 

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shall take up more physical qualifications and indicate 
how these qualifications apply not only to a ball player 
as such, but particularly to the individual positions on 
the diamond. 

Several other qualifications are necessary for the 
player at any position. Speed is the watchword of 
modern baseball. A young athlete must be quick and 
active and I would speciall}^ recommend all would-be 
players to practice the sprint with a good deal of per- 
sistence. In track athletics various types of foot races 
are in order, and they all require an entirely dififerent 
training. For instance, the mile runner would very 
likely be of no possible good at the hundred yards dis- 
tance, just as the hundred yard man would be out of 
it at the mile. Baseball is a game of sprints. All the 
distances are short, but the man who can get to first 
a foot ahead of the other fellow has made a safe hit. 

A would-be player must also develop his throwing 
arm. To be a success he must be a fast, accurate 
thrower. He should cultivate the overhand throw and 
learn to drive the ball on a line. Practice is the most 
important way of becoming expert. 

Some players are star first basemen, who would be 
lost at shortstop for instance. There are certain quali- 
fications which go with every position on the diamond. 
A player should study his quahfications very carefully, 
and try to determine not necessarily the position he 
would best like to play, but the position for which he 
is best fitted. Many players, even in the Major Leagues, 
have lost years of time trying to play a position for 
which they were not naturally fitted and have found 
out perhaps late in their career the place which they 
should have occupied from the first. I have no hesita- 
tion in saying that choice of position is one of the most 
important, if not the most important, things for a player 

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to decide upon. Upon the wisdom of his choice here 
depends a great deal of his future success. 

The importance of settling this question rightly is 
shown by the training necessary in developing a throw- 
ing arm. For instance, if a player has decided that he 
should play the outfield, he will need to develop his 
throwing arm along entirely different lines than would 
be the case if he were a shortstop. For instance, an 
outfielder will need to develop distance as well as ac- 
curacy in his throw. Perhaps the most important part 
of an outfielder's duties is getting a runner at the plate. 
Great throwing arms are not common, but there is no 
department of an outfielder's work where they are more 
needed. 

Conversely, if a player had decided that he was a 
natural shortstop he would need to develop a very quick 
get-away with the ball and a fairly long throw. Speed 
would be in that case the prime essential and, of 
course, accuracy as well. But the shortstop would need 
to practice a throw from a difficult position as well as 
from a natural position, as he often has to make the 
throw under very unfavorable circumstances in a regu- 
lation game, 

I have often thought outfielders injured their arms by 
a false method of throwing, as it is absolutely certain 
pitchers and catchers often do. If an outfielder will 
throw overhand, let his arm out at full length, and 
keep his arm close to his ear in throwing, I doubt if 
he will ever throw his arm out or injure it in any way. 
He will certainly not do so if he has had proper pre- 
liminary training and is in good physical condition. 

So much for general requirements in a player. To 
carry the study further it will be necessary to consider 
the various positions in turn. First, because it is one 
of the most important and most imperfectly understood. 
T will begin with the position of catcher. 

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Ihe backstop should be at least five feet, nine inches 
in height Ordinarily the catcher is rather stocky of 
build. In fact, this type is so well understood that 
catchers are usually men of wide muscular development 
and of late years what from this and perhaps other 
causes catchers have slowed up a good deal in speed so 
that they are scarcely better base runners than average 
pitchers. There is something in this theory of a stocky 
build, as the catcher, like the pitcher, needs to be a man 
of good muscular build to stand the constant strain of 
his position. 

A catcher more than any other player on the diamond, 
needs to have a good working knowledge of human 
nature. He needs to be the type of man who can humor 
the pitcher and, at the same time, jolly the opposing 
batter. In a real game, if you sit near enough to home 
plate to hear^ you will remark that the catcher is usually 
•keeping up a steady stream of comment usually to the 
batter. This is done with the well understood intention 
of diverting his attention from the matter in hand, 
trying, if possible, to get him to take his eye off the 
ball for a minute and thus get him in bad with the 
pitcher. His conversation is much more important than 
is commonly understood. In fact, some catchers con- 
sider it the most important of qualifications for the job. 
Street, one of the greatest of American League backstops 
in his day, was known as ''Gabby,'' while Kling, who 
was equally great in the National League, had the nick- 
name ''Noisy," showing the importance these two per- 
formiers attached to conversation on the diamond. 

This point, I believe, is not generally understood, and 
yet it is a fact that one of the prime essentials in a 
Catcher is to keep his own pitcher encouraged at all 
time and rattle the opposing batter if possible. 

The chief difference between an experienced catcher 

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and one who isn't experienced, is in their knowledge 
of the game. It is for this reason that a manager very 
often keeps an old catcher who is slowed up and can 
no longer hit as his first-string man, in preference even 
to some brilliant young performer, because the veteran 
has long experience and a sound judgment which the 
young man lacks. Of course this knowledge can only 
be gained by years of work, and that is the very thing 
which the young man breaking into the game does not 
possess- I mention it because that is the end he should 
work for from the time he catches his first game. 

The catching talent which shows up most clearly is 
ability to line a ball down to second base. Not every 
one has it in him to be a Jimmy Archer in this respect, 
but it is absolutely necessary that a catcher should be 
a fast and accurate thrower. Young catchers should 
always try to be in a position when they receive a ball 
to get the runner trying to steal a base. Whether the 
pitched ball is coming above or below the waist, the 
catcher should always put his left foot f orw^ard ; let 
his arm go well back, and throw the ball with the same 
motion by which he throws his body forward. Never 
draw the arm up in front, and never take a step after 
you catch the ball. This is what loses time, and the 
smallest fraction of a second is what counts. The in- 
stant yoti have your hand on the ball^ throw it with 
an overhand motion and on a line. If you do this, you 
are bound to throw it accurately. If the ball happens 
to be pitched as high as the shoulder, or near it, let 
the hand go back over the shoulder and throw the ball 
with the full length of the arm. If the ball is pitched on 
the inside of the plate and low, stay in your position, 
as you may have to take a short step when you throw it. 
This seldoms happens, as the pitchers always try to 
help the catcher get the base runner. 

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In throwing a ball, always be careful to get a free, 
natural motion — never snap the arm ; for if you do^ 
you will be likely to injure the tendons in the shoulder. 

Above all, a catcher should have confidence in his 
throw. It is hard for the average player to see what 
difiference this makes, but it ^oes make all the difference 
in the world. If the catcher really beUeves he is going 
to get the runner, in most cases he will If he is in 
doubt about it when he throws, the ball is very apt to go 
wide or be too late. Confidence counts everywhere in 
baseball, but nowhere more so than with the catcher. 

PITCHERS. 

The pitcher ought to be tall. If you will look over 
the list of Major League pitchers you will find that 
almost all of them are six feet or over. Occasionally a 
man much shorter than this becomes a star, but ordin- 
arily a good pitcher does not fall much below six feet 
in height. There is a reason for this. In the first place, 
a tall man, since he is usually well-proportioned to be 
a ball player, is a big man as well. Pitching is the 
most wearing work in baseball — it requires a man of 
more than average endurance and strength. Most man- 
agers insist upon having big men for pitchers, and are 
not generally interested in small men, even though they 
show much cleverness. They figure that a pitcher has 
to be big and strong to stand the strain. Again, a tall 
man can get a much better swing with the ball than a 
short man, and other things being equal, will have more 
speed. The theory that ball players should be big men 
physically has been exploded in reference to some posi- 
tions^ but still applies to pitchers. The first thing the 
pitchers must have, and generally the hardest thing for 
him to get, is control. Some pitchers are spitball pitchers, 
and use little else. But the average pitcher employes both 

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fast balls and curves. A young pitcher must practice both 
types until he can be sure of getting the ball over the 
plate. In practicing he should always try to put the 
ball over the plate, and in time he will get the knack 
of doing this. Once he gains control the rest is easy. 

Pitching curve balls a foot outside the plate is only 
Avasting them and gets a pitcher in a hole. Try and 
curve them as near the plate as you can. Get control of 
them as well as the ball you curve over the plate, 
and you may draw the batter on to strike at them or 
hit the ball to the first or second baseman. 

There is somic difference of opinion on pitching de- 
livery, but to my mind the pitcher should always keep his 
arm as high as he possibly can, especially throwing low 
curve balls over the plate. If he can master this art he is 
bound to be effective. The pitcher should always watch 
the batter and notice the position in which he stands at 
the plate. All batters at times step back from the plate 
with their left foot. This is a sure sign of lack of confi- 
dence and generally denotes that the batter is in a slump. 
Such a batter should never get a ball on the inside of the 
plate. For that is the only kind of a ball he can hit 
good and hard. Otherwise he cannot hit the ball out- 
side of the diamond unless it is a scratch hit, for he 
has to .over-reach himself to get it, and is not in a 
position to hit it hard. 

I remember one season, I think it was in '93, Boston 
and New York were great rivals, and every game they 
played, the grounds in both Boston and the Polo 
Grounds, were packed with people. It was late in the 
season, and they were tied iii the series. The game 
was at the Polo Grounds, and there were more than 
20,000 spectators. I then had the bar and lunch privi- 
lege at the grounds, and some of my friends were 
backing Boston to win. So I took the old Giants on 

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general principles. There were a lot of my friends there 
that day trying to show me, so they said, how much 
I knew about the game. So I thought I would take a 
look at my friend, Amos Rusie, who was pitching for 
the Giants. He never had more speed, and his inshoot 
was working fine on the inside corner of the plate. 
Amos was always happy when he had control of that 
ball. He was a big^ good-natured fellow and did not 
want to injure any player. The Boston Club was hitting 
the ball hard, and New York was playing a great field- 
ing game, making double plays and great stops for the 
first two innings. The nine men batted all around, and 
Boston succeeded in scoring one run. I sent one of my 
workmen down to Amos on the player's bench with a 
note. In this note I told him not to pitch his inshoot, that 
nearly every one of the Boston Club was pulling his left 
foot back from the plate, and that the batter could not hit 
a ball out of the diamond if he would put them low and 
over the plate. Hugh Duffy was the first man up for 
the next inning, and he hit a slow grounder to the first 
baseman; the second batter hitting to the second base- 
man, and the third to the first baseman. When Amos 
was walking to the bench he looked up toward the bar 
on the grandstand, which was behind the catcher at 
the back of the stand, and he had a big broad smile on 
his face. Any player who pulled his left foot back^ or 
left-hander, who pulled his right foot back, never hit 
Amos very hard after that, and the Giants won the 
game, 4-1. A couple of nights afterward I dropped 
into a place and met Dad Clarke with a few of his 
friends. Dad could give a man quite a tongue-lashing, 
if he stood for it, and when he saw me he was ripe for 
an argument on the old game. He began by saying to 
me : ''You oldtimers make me sick/' But Dad stepped 
on the tail of my coat when he spoke of oldtimers, for 

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I am always ready to give an argument in their favor. 
Dad had been sitting on the bench most of the season, 
so I told him about batters stepping back from the 
plate. Amos nearly always pitched the first game of 
the series against each club. He was a very speedy 
pitcher^ and if he lost control of his inshoot and hit a 
batter it would hurt, which made some of the good 
hitters very timid and caused them to step back from 
the plate. It would take a few days before they would 
get their stride again. I told Dad about this, and told 
him to ask Johnny Ward to let him pitch a game right 
after Rusie, and if he won it to ask to be allov/ed to pitch 
every game after Rusie. Ward allowed him the privilege, 
and he won the game. He followed it and he won 
every game he pitched on the western trip, as he was a 
foxy pitcher and told no one the secret of his success. The 
batters often wondered why it was that dad was so 
successful. They claimed that he had nothing on the 
ball. It is true he had a little speed, but because he fol- 
lowed the advice I gave him, they could not seem to hit it 
out of the infield. 

All good pitchers in the old days would try to watch 
the position the batter took when he went to the plate, 
and pitch accordingly. Pitchers ought to do the same 
to-day. The pitcher must always remember that he is 
not working by himself alone. To get the best results 
he must always co-operate with his catcher. Among 
other things he must try to keep the base-runner as 
close to the bases as possible, and must be ready to 
throw to the base whenever necessary. 

In pitching to the batter, try to put the first ball over 
the plate. Most batters don't hit at the first one^ and 
if you? can get one strike on them without much trouble, 
that gives you a big percentage. It is hardly necessary 
to say that you must study the batter you face- Try 

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to pick out his weakness and always keep this particular 
weakness in your head when you are in the box. When 
there are men on the bases and a good batter up and 
you can see that he is anxious to hit the ball, that is a fine 
time to give him a slow ball about knee high and over 
the plate. Nine times out of ten he will swing before 
the ball gets to him. A pitcher can read a great deal 
from the attitude of the various batters who face him 
and take advantage of them very often if he is skillful. 
The first baseman should be tall. Above all things 
he needs a long reach. This position is a good one for 
a left handed man, for he does not have to turn in 
making the throw to second base. He can also touch 
the man coming to first base better, as he will have a 
grip on the ball, for he has no glove on his left hand. 
A good big fellow who can hit the ball ought to play 
this base. He must learn to get all the balls thrown 
on a short bound just the same as if they were hit at 
him. 

The second baseman ought to be at least five feet, ten 
mches, a very active fellow who can cover, lots of 
ground. He must learn to stop quick, for he has a 
large territory to work in — both on fly balls and groun- 
ders. In the case of a grounder he should always try to 
get in front of the ball so that if he fumbles he can 
recover the ball quickly. The second baseman ought 
to cover first more often than he does. When the 
bases are empty nearly all those slow hits the first base- 
man gets when the pitcher covers the bag ought to go 
rather to the second baseman. He should cover the bag 
when he can save the pitcher who is by all odds the 
hardest worked man on the field. The second baseman 
has to be a good under-hand thrower in handling low 
thrown balls where he has to make a quick double play. 
He also has to have grit and not be afraid of the base 
runner. 

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The shortstop is a very hard poistion to play. He 
must have an excellent arm and be^ a good thrower. 
He usually plays a deep held and gets very little help 
from the third baseman. On balls iwhich go to the 
right of him he has to field clean and throw them very 
hard to get the batter. On hits toward second base he 
generally has to turn to throw the man out at first, and 
consequently must get speed on the throw. He has 
to run in on all those little slow hits that look so easy and 
not fumble them. He should not snap the ball in run- 
ing, as that is how most ball players hurt their arms. 
It is always better to stop quick and throw the ball 
hard. Pull the arm back, put the left foot forward at 
the same lime, and the ball will travel faster and more 
accurately. The shortstop often has to cover second 
base, particularly in double plays. Shortstop is a very 
hard position to play because the third baseman has to 
play in short for bunts. He cannot cover ground to 
the left of him, and it looks foolish, for he very seldom 
throws the batter out on a short hit. It is generally the 
pitcher that gets the hit and throws the batter out. The 
only batters they really get are the men that hit an 
ordinary slow hit, and the third baseman could handle 
these just as well if he would play a deeper field and 
run in on the ball. AMiat a pleasure it was to see 
Jerry Denny, Billy Nash, Jimmy Collins and others 
covering ground, making beautiful stops of what looked 
like sure base hits and throwing the ball on line to the 
first baseman. 

In '88 Mike Tiernan batted after Johnny Ward, who 
was a great base runner and used a lot of judgment. If 
he reached first with no,ne out and saw the third base- 
man playing very deep he would signal Mike that 
he w^as going to second. Tiernan was a good hitter and 
made some of the longest hits on record. He also could 

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bunt the ball and beat it out, for he was a very fast run- 
ner. When Johnny went to second Mike would hit a 
slow one to the third baseman, and on the throw to first 
Ward would go to third, and very often both of them 
were safe. Even if the third baseman ran in on the 
ball and got Mike out first, it was a sacrifice hit and 
another would score a run, for Ward was very fast. But 
they did not work this play very long, for the old fel- 
lows knew all the tricks of the game and soon put a stop 
to it. When the American and National Leagues came 
together they thought it would be a great thing 
to bunt the ball so the infield could not make a 
double play. The batter might run it out and get a 
base hit, and another base hit would score the runner 
on second base. So they finally reached a point where 
they deliberately put themselves out to advance a runner 
to second base, where he was left a good many more 
times than he scored. A club that plays that kind of 
baseball from the beginning of the game will never 
reach the first division. The batter that makes a sacri- 
fice hit where another may score a run is accomplishing 
something, but the other fellow is too glad to get away 
from the plate and has no ambiton unless his manager 
instructs him to do it. There are a lot of those kind in 
the game to-day. That is why a third baseman has to 
play in close. I think an active little man with plenty 
of grit to get in front of all hard-hit balls would make 
a good third baseman, as he can get down better than 
the big fellow when he runs in. But if the pitchers keep 
trying to save their arm by pitching low curve balls under 
the shoulder, it is only a matter of time when the third 
baseman will have to go back and play deep. That kind 
of pitching was knocked out of the game in '82 or *83, so 
my advice to pitchers is, keep your arm as high as you 
can when throwing low curved balls over the plate, as it 

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has been the only successful curve pitching that has 
lasted. 

Little men who are active and good throwers would 
make good outfielders as they can start quick and cover 
a lot of ground, they can recover themselves quicker 
than the big fellows on short fly balls and can stoop bet- 
ter without falling and prevent the runner from going 
to another base. 

They can stop short and not run with the ball after 
catching it; they can run in on ground balls and get 
them better as they are natural infielders and can throw 
the ball just as far and as accurately. 

They would back up the bases as they are active and 
some little men are just as good hitters and base run- 
ners; they can slide and get up quick and would get 
their base often on balls as they are harder to pitch to. 

Little men will have to learn to be long, accurate 
throwers and hit the ball and run the bases fast and play 
the outfield as they want all big men in the infield now- 

If the batter would stand in the rear end of the box 
with his right foot against the line near the plate and 
face the pitcher with more than half of his chest and 
both eyes with his left foot out straight near the line at 
the plate and have a firm grip on the bat and let it rest 
on his shoulder ; he then would have a full view of the 
base line from the home plate to third base. 

By standing up in the box sideways he cannot see that 
line and with his side to the pitcher he has to turn his 
head to see him with both eyes and that puts a strain 
on the lens of the eyes, and if he would' face the pitcher 
he would not hit so many of those good line hits foul 
as he would have the base line to guide him and could 
gauge the ball when pitched accordingly. 

The weight of the bat would not be on his wrists ; he 
could see all curve balls better and would not be fooled 

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so often on low drop balls below the knees which he 
ought to let go by. 

The catcher would have to get back out of the way of 
the bat and the umpire would have a better view of the 
plate and see all curve balls better and would make less 
mistakes on strikes. 

The batter would not have to swing so hard at the ball ; 
he could meet it and line it out with his arms if he 
w^anted to driye it but straight and hard or hit it in 
right field, take a step forward as the ball goes over the 
plate and try to hit it on a line. 

If the pitcher has great speed and is successful throw- 
ing straight speedy balls over the plate it is because the 
batter is swinging hard at the ball and the pitcher has 
the advantage, but if the batter stands erect and tries to 
meet the ball with his arms he has a better chance to 
hit it in the middle and the old bat will ring. They are 
great balls to hit and go off the bat like a shot. 

A batter at practice should try to hit all balls over 
the plate in any part of the diamond he wants to and 
should be able to do it before he becomes a major league 
player. 

A batter should never pull his left foot back or left 
handed batter his right foot unless he wants to hit a 
ball on the in-corner of the plate and they are great 
-balls to hit if not too close or too high and can hit them 
good and hard at the third baseman or in left field. 

If you keep pulling your left foot back and can't get 
control of it go out to the ground some morning and have 
some one to throw to you; make him put the ball over 
the plate as often as he can; stand perfectly still with 
your feet and try to hit every one over out straight 
towards second base with your arms ; let all the close 
ones go by and try to hit them on a line ; after you have 
hit quite a lot try a short steo forward and meet the ball 

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with your arms and each one goes over the plate take 
a step and hit it hard and on a hne out straight and you 
will soon get your stride again. 

A batter should always keep track of his left foot 
when at the plate and step forward before he hits the 
ball. 

A young player should ahvays wait until he has a 
strike called on him as the pitcher may be trying to work 
him and he can see the course the ball takes if it is 
pitched over the plate he is prepared to hit the next ball 
for he is collected and will not be so anxious or easily 
fooled. 

A batter should go to the plate with the intention of 
showing the pitcher that he is his boss and the only way 
he can do that is not to let him fool him but make him put 
the ball over the plate. 

The batter can do that if he stands in the position at 
the plate that I have advised for he will see the ball 
better and he will not be hit by the pitcher so often for 
he can stoop quicker and step away better. 

If there are none out and a runner on first base and 
three balls and one strike on the batter, it is a good time 
for the hit and run if the ball is thrown over the plate 
and all pitchers will try to put it over ; it can be hit or 
placed by the batter the runner will have a good start 
and may take advantage of the catcher and may go to 
third if the batter makes a base hit ; if the batter lets the 
ball go by it will be two strikes and three balls, the 
pitcher may fool the batter and strike him out if the 
runner is held on first by the pitcher as the catcher knows 
he is going to run to second there may be a double play 
made or the batter may hit at a bad ball and not be able 
to place it as well. 

When a runner is on first base he ought to make a 
start for second base to see who will cover the bag on 

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the throw from the catcher and stop quick and go back 
before he is thrown out so the batter will know in what 
direction to hit the ball or place it. 

A base runner when on first base should get a good 
lead to make the pitcher think he is going to steal second 
base just lead enough so he can get back to the base 
and not be thrown out by the pitcher; he has got to be 
alert and watch the pitcher and make him throw the 
ball to try to catch him; if he has to slide let him get up 
quick as the ball may be thrown bad and only go a short 
distance from first base and far enough for him to get 
second base for the first baseman has to get it and turn 
around at times to throv/ the ball to the man cover- 
ing the bag; be quick to take advantage when you see 
it ; always keep your eyes on the ball when running bases- 

The pitcher generally throws the ball low to the first 
baseman so he can touch the runner quick when he 
slides, that is why he sometimes makes a bad throw. 

The runner should always try to worry the pitcher 
and make him throw the ball to first base and it may 
help the batter as he may waste a few thinking the run- 
ner is going to start for second. 

He should wait until the batter has a strike called on 
him as the pitcher may try to work him and get himself 
in bad. 

If not watch the pitcher close and see which way he 
draws his arm when he throws the ball to the batter and 
when he throws to first and when you are sure he is 
going to throw to the batter that is the time for you to 
go and you don't need a big lead when you get a good 
start for the pitcher may think he has you scared; 
never let him worry you; let him do the worrying. 

When a runner is on second base and when the pitcher 
throw^s the ball to the batter the runner should always 
run far enough to get a good lead to get in on a base 

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hit and stop quick if the ball is not hit so he can get back 
to second ; he should run on the outside so he will have 
a straight run home along the base line. 

A runner should never try to steal third base when 
none out as the batter may make a hit or a sacrifice hit to- 
wards the second baseman or first baseman as the both 
of them will be playing deep if he trys to make a hit 
and it goes to the third baseman or shortstop the runner 
can make third on the throw to first if he starts when 
the ball is thrown and there is always a chance of the 
first baseman making a bad throw if the ball is thrown 
to the left of him. and the man going to first should not 
slide then but keep on the inside of the base line to be 
in his way. 

Never run until the ball is thrown as the fielder may 
make a bluft' to throw it. 

In a close game and one out the runner if fast should 
always try to steal third base as he can get a big lead 
on the pitcher for he is right in front of him and it is 
not a hard base to steal if he has a good lead. 

He then could score on a fly to the outfield or a slow 
hit to the infield if he had a lead when the pitcher de- 
livered the ball to the batter. 

\\'hen a runner is on second base and two out and 
there are no strikes or one strike and three balls on the 
batter in a close game and a run will tie the score he 
should try to steal third base as he can get a good lead 
for the pitcher and catcher's mind are on the batter. 

And if the batter gets his base and runs to second the 
catcher will and should throw to second to catch him 
and may make a bad throw ; there is always a chance of 
that and the run will score or the runner if he saw the 
ball was there ahead of him if he watched the man who 
took the throw could stop quick and go back; so the 
man on third if he took a lead when the pitcher deliv- 

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ered the ball to the batter could score if it is a short 
throw to catch the man on third going home then he 
would get second; the coacher can make the man on 
third go back; a base hit will then score two runs as the 
man on second always has a good lead when there are 
two out, whereas if the runner had not stolen third it 
would only score one run. 

When a base runner is on second base he should watch 
the fielder when a long fly is hit and he can see if he 
will catch it he should get back and stand on the bag and 
when the ball hits his hands go for third when there are 
none out or one out as it is a long throw and he has to 
throw it fast and accurate to catch him and if he muffs 
it the ball will roll some distance and he can score on it. 

Before the batter touches first base he ought to watch 
the coacher in case of a wild throw so he can keep his 
stride and can turn quick to go to second. 
. He also should stop quick after he touches first base in 
case the first baseman drops the ball and it may roll away 
from him, and he should watch the man who takes the 
throw at second and know when to slide and get up 
quick in case of a bad throw by the first baseman who 
may have to turn before he throws it. 

The runner should always slide feet first and on the 
left side so he will not hurt his throwing arm, throw the 
feet in the air and come down on your hip; let your 
left arm go out and drag it after you ; don't come down 
on your hand as you may hurt your wrist ; keep on the 
line stealing and slide straight for the bag and the base- 
man will not get in your way when you slide at him, 
making the fallaway slide on the outside or in front of 
the base gives the man that takes the throw plenty of 
time and room to touch the base runner and he is not 
afraid of the runner spiking him and keeping on the line 
the runner has less ground to cover. 

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When a player is learning to slide he ought to wear 
those sliding pads and when he has it down fine he 
should never wear them as they are a big load to be 
carrying all through the game, especially when they get 
wet from sweat they will be very heavy and a player will 
not hurt himself when he knows how to slide he can 
sew a piece of oil silk on his pants and that will keep 
the skin from chafing on his hips and he will feel a 
great deal more comfortable and lighter and can stoop 
for ground balls better and will run faster. 

In a game with none out and a runner on third base 
the infield should play for the batter and not come in on 
the grass for he cannot cover any ground on a hard hit 
ball to either side of him but should play back of the 
line so he can cover some ground as the runner on third 
will not take a chance of being thrown out on a ball hit 
to the infield when he knows he can get in if the next 
batter hits a fly to the outfield or makes a base hit. 

If one out the infield can play in the same position i\ 
the runner on third is not fast and the ball hit hard he 
can be thrown out at the plate, and if the runner is fast 
on third play in short- 

If one out and a runner on first and another one on 
third always play for a double play if the ball is not hit 
hard try and get the runner going to second base ; never 
be afraid to let a club score a run when there is a chance 
to make a double play and clear the bases trying to keep 
a club from scoring a run often gives them a chance for 
a rally especially if you don't get the man at the plate 
if you are playing in short to get him. 

If your club has a lead of a couple of runs and a man 
on third and none out or one out always play deep for 
the batter at any stage of the game. 

A runner on first base and a ball hit in right field or 
center field along the ground the fielder should run in 

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on it and close his legs on it and keep the man on first 
from going to third if hit to one side of him and the 
runner goes to third and the fielder thinks he can get 
him he should brace himself and throw the ball good and 
hard on a line, not on a bound. 

The shortstop should back up the throw and if the 
third baseman, who ought to keep his eyes on the run- 
ner, can see easy if he can get him, if not he can throw 
the ball to the second base and get the man that hit the 
ball if he leaves first on the throw to third. 

If one or none out when a runner is on second base 
.and the batter makes a base hit one a fielder can run in 
on he should throw it on a line to the plate and if he 
don't get the runner at the plate it will entice the man 
who hit the ball to go to second base on the throw home 
and the catcher can tell if he keeps his eyes on the 
runner if he can get him at the plate, if not he can get 
the man that hit the ball if he goes to second on the 
throw home every time if he don't delay but throw it as 
soon as he catches it and the bases will be empty. 

If a runner is on third base and another on first and 
none out the catcher should throw the ball to get the 
runner going to second; the pitcher should throw to 
first to keep the runner close to the bag and not let him 
get a lead; the man on third will not be so foolish to 
run home when he knows he has two more chances by 
the batter hitting a fly to the outfield or making a base 
hit. 

If the runner stops before he reaches second base 
when he knows he is caught he should be run back quick 
towards firsts the second baseman should not be afraid 
of the man on third going when he did not go on the 
long throw so let him get his speed before the base 
runner and touch him quick before he gets his stride. 

\^^hen there are one out the catcher should make a long 

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throw to get the runner at second base if a fast man is 
on third and a runner on first starts for second the man 
on third will surely start for home on a long throw if 
the catcher makes a short throw and a run would tie 
the score the coacher would hold the man on third for 
he knows the runner on first will reach second base safe 
on a short throw and a fly ball to the outfield will score 
him or a slow sacrifice hit for he is fast and a base hit 
will score two runs and may win the game, so the only 
chance is to walk the next batter and trust to make a 
double play for if the infield play in short they can't 
cover any ground on either side of them on a hard hit 
ball and the runner on third is fast. 

So if the catcher made the short throw it would put 
them in a very tight place where if he made the long 
throw and got the runner going to second base the run 
would only tie the score and the bases would be empty 
and two out. 

If one out or none out and the bases are full in the 
ninth inning and the score is tied the infield should not 
come in on the grass but play on the base line so 
they can cover some ground; they should remember 
that the man on third is forced out at the plate and 
the catcher don't have to touch him and if the ball is 
hit hard the catcher, if he stands on, the plate may get 
the batter at first, making a double play; the pitcher 
should throw the ball to third base if the runner takes 
any kind of a lead, and make him stay near the base. 

If the home club is at bat, the outfield should play 
way in so they can throw the runner out at the plate 
if they catch a line' hit or a short fly ; if they play out 
the man on third will score on a fly and win the game. 

The club that will be near the top at the end of the 
season have got to hit the ball, run the bases; and the 
outfield will have to cover ground on all base hits and 

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throw the ball when the runner is trying to make two 
bases on the hit when the batter hits it. 

The club that plays scientific baseball by bunting and 
playing for one run all through the game is not playing 
major league baseball; it may do well for a while when 
the other club is not hitting in an odd game but it is 
bad baseball to play all season as it interferes with the 
batter when he is hitting the ball good arid hard to 
have to bunt it, for he very often gets out of his stride 
at the plate and it keeps the runner from trying to 
steal a base when he knows the batter is trying to 
advance him; it takes all the ginger out of the game 
and also out of the player. 

There was some changes made in the playing rules 
such as; catching a foul tip and none out; or one out 
and throwing it to the base and making a double play 
before the runner on a base could get back to it; and 
dropping a fly ball in the infield; or trapping it when 
runners were on first and second base with none out 
or one out, making a double play. 

And a runner on third and one out or none out 
an outfielder^ if a long fly was hit, would tap it up in 
the air before catching it to keep the runner on the 
base until the ball was caught ; or if he went as soon as 
the ball hit the fielder's, hands he would have to go back 
and touch the base again; and the ball would be fielded 
quick to third base and the runner was often held there 
especially by long accurate throwers. 

Also fouling the ball if the batter had the pitcher in 
a hole; if the pitcher threw it over the plate, the batter 
would hit it foul until the pitcher threw a bad one and 
he got his base on balls. 

So to keep him from doing it, if he hit the first ball 
he struck at and hit it foul, it is a strike; or if he hits 
the next one foul it is a strike; but he can hit as many 

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as he likes after that, unless he bunts it, but the batters 
don't seem to take advantage of it when they have the 
pitcher in a hole. 

The rule looks so ridiculous; they did not wait until 
the batter had the pitcher in a hole and then if he 
fouled the ball call it a strike, but if he fouled the first 
ball pitched it is a strike; and to give a pitcher credit 
for striking a batter out if he hits the ball in the middle 
of it and lines it foul, just because he hits quick and 
has got his eye on it; and it may be the second strike, 
as some good hitters will wait for a strike to be called 
on them, especially if there are men on the bases ; or 
he may hit one away out near the foul line^ and if it 
is caught then it is a foul fly, if not a strike; and if the 
umpire makes a mistake and calls him out on the third 
strike, or he misses the ball by a small margin, the 
pitcher gets credit for striking him out. 

If the batter makes a foul tip, or a foul hits the 
wire behind the catcher, or goes into the stand near 
the wire, or over the stand, the batter almost missed the 
ball and the pitcher should get credit for a strike; but 
not when the batter hits the ball in the middle of it 
and the pitcher is not in a hole, as the pitcher don't fool 
him; and there should be some discretion made by 
painting lines on the stand, and the ball would have to 
go on the inside of them to- be a strike ; and not be 
robbing the batter of what belongs to him; it is a 
foul ball and should not be anything else. 

And it disgraces the batter to give a pitcher credit for 
what he does not accomplish; and have such a nonsen- 
sical rule in the national game. 

I will put the young fellow wise to a few things 
they have to do to be successful. 

The principal thing he has to do is take good care of 
his eyes. To do that he must not read much at night, 

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Cafe and Restaurant 

N W. Cor. 42d Street and 9th Avenue 
NEW YORK 

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especially lying down; if he goes to a moving picture 
show, let him not sit too close to the pictures. Sleep 
is a great rest for the eyes and for the ball player. 
Keep the bowels well regulated ; that is the main thing:. 

He should also take good care of his throwing arm'. 
Before going to bed, if he would soak a piece of flannel 
in hot water and put it around his shoulder and elbow 
to open the pores, then dry; and rub some camphorated 
oil in! good and hard two of three times a week, it 
would keep the sinews soft, and the blood would cir- 
culate and not get stagnated, as it very often happens 
with all athletes. If he would do the same to his hips, 
knee joints and ankles a couple of times a week, it will 
help to make him fast. 

Every morning when he gets up, before breakfast, 
if he would place his feet almost together and bend down 
and almost touch the floor about fifty times good and 
quick, and after breakfast, take a walk, he would always 
feel supple and not get that tired and lazy feeling, which 
all ball players have at times, and interferes with 
their playing. 

Drinking a lot of stufif in the morning and at dinner, 
no matter what it is, will bring on that feeling quicker 
than anything else. If a player feels thirsty, let him 
eat some fruit. It will make the blood rich, and help 
to keep the bowels regular; and he will always be in 
trim. 

There are times when a player breaks the rule of. 
going to bed at a certain time. It often happens, as 
they are only human. They have to report at the 
grounds in the morning for practice. He should be 
on the level with his manager. If he did not have 
enough sleep and wrote a note, giving it to another 
player, telling him he had no sleep, as he .waxS not feel- 
ing well, he then might get excused, as all managers 

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want their players to have their natural sleep; and 
not be afraid of a fine. And when he gets up, if he 
is not feeling good, take a sedlitz powder ;"and a short 
walk then^ after dinner, and during the game, he will 
feel good and have an eye like a hawk; and the manager 
will think more of him when he knows the player was 
trying to get himself in condition for the game. 

If a player does not get his natural sleep, and reports 
at the ground and takes his practice, he may feel all right, 
running around and sweating in the heat of the morning ; 
but when four o'clock comes he would prefer his bed 
than playing baseball, and will have no ginger in him. 

Mr. Lane, editor of the Baseball Magazine, said all 
authors should show some facts to verify what they 
write about; so here is one about the old Metropolitans 
when they won the championship of the American As- 
sociation in '84. 

The Columbus and St. Louis Clubs were chasing the 
old champs pretty fast the latter part of June, and when 
we reached Columbus, Jim Mutrie^ who was our man- 
ager then and was a whole soul fellow, asked the boys 
to refrain from all intoxicants while in Columbus, as 
they were a great fielding club and we had to hit the 
ball to win ; and when we would get back to old New 
York, he and John B. Day, who was president of the 
Giants and owned the old Metropolitans, and was built 
like all New Yorkers are, would give the boys a grand 
rush a shay affair. 

And the old warriors tried how red lemonade would 
work on their system while in Columbus, and they won 
the first two games and lost the third and last game 
by the score of 6 to 0, the first time they were shut out 
that season. 

The next day was the third of July and was an off 
day, and they rode all day. And going into St. Louis 

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that evemng, Big Chief Roseman said to Mutrie Jim, 
"The boys have got to 'temper up to-night; that red 
lemonade they drank in Columbus has made them all 
feel like strangers to each other." 

Jim answered back saying we play in St. Louis in 
the morning and afternoon and that the club has* struck 
their gait and there will be one of them big holiday 
crowds there and we will have to play ball to win. 

''Well Jim/' said the Chief," ''if you think we can 
win without drowning that stuff we drank under your 
instructions in Columbus, I for one, don't think so; and 
that last game we played don't prove it. 

"Well, wait until to-morrow night and we will all go 
together and get it out of our system," said Jim. 

But nature took its course with the majority of the 
boys, who were favorites in St. Louis and had a lot 
of friends there, and they did not reach the hotel until 
the sun was shining. 

Jim got wind of it and put a fine of a hundred dollars 
apiece on every player who did not show up before 
he went to bed himself. 

It was a very hot morning and they had the largest 
crowd ever attended a morning game — fifteen thousand. 
The old champs ran around like colts in the hot sun and 
felt like fighting cocks. And the red lemonade and the 
old juice poured out of them and they felt like the old 
New York boys again. i 

Arlie Latham often remarked after : "I will never 
forget the determined look that band of Indians had 
on their faces that morning." 

McGinnis pitched for St. Louis, and he never in 
his existence got such a walloping as the old Metropoli- 
tans gave him; winning the game 17 to 0. But in the 
afternoon they acted like a lot of dead ones- Dave 
Foutz pitched for St. Louis and his drop ball was 

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working to perfection, and the Metropolitans were 
nearly all low ball hitters and loved to get up against 
such pitchers as Foutz or others that would try to fool 
them on low balls. 

But Dave got away with it, for the old Indians of 
the morning were only lambs, and St. Louis had them 
7 to up to the seventh inning. 

Mutrie who was watching the financial end, and was 
an up-to-date fellow, saw the trouble with the fleet and 
got a bottle of Hennesey's Three Star and brought it 
over to the bench saying, 'Take a good high one of 
this and get some life in you, for I never saw such a 
lot of dead ones. And after this, any player that don't 
get his sleep will get what's coming to him, and that 
goes.'' 

*'Say Jim," said one of the fellows that never drank 
anything that would go to his head, ''I am going to 
take a high one off Foutz this time, as he stepped to 
pick up his bat, and I am going to meet it. We are 
trying to knock that drop ball of his out of the lot but 
we are hitting it in the air." 

So he called for a high ball as he went to the plate, 
and the first batter up that inning. Dave tried to draw 
him on by wasting the high ones and still pitching the 
drop ball, but he would not bite at them and got his 
base on balls. 

Big Chief Roseman, who had a voice like John L. 
Sullivan, and was a great coacher, who was after having 
one of Mutrie's high ones, jumped up to the coaching 
line and shouted at Foutz, calling him a big pair of scis- 
sors, and told him his mother raised him on asparagus. 
The next batter called for a high ball and he met one in 
the middle and lined it out safely. The next batter also 
called for a high ball. You could see Dave twitching and 
getting uneasy and at last lost his head and others with 

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him, and the old champs scored nine runs that inning and 
won the game, 14 to 9. When the bunch got into the 
coaches they looked around for Mutrie, but he had 
scooted around to our old friend, Chris Von der Ahe, 
who was a great admirer of the old Metropolitans and 
took great delight in seeing the old ball hit good and 
hard, and if his own club could not do it, he took just as 
much pleasure watching the other fellows hit, when 
they had a batting streak. So Jim got him to put a 
half dozen quarts of "Mother's Milk," as Bill Devery 
christened it, on the ice, and the old Metropolitans 
made short work of it and drowned the red lemonade 
along with Jim's hundred dollar fines- 

And that is one Fourth of July that my old friend 
Charley Comiskey, who was the manager of the St. 
Louis Club at that time, will never forget. He often 
mentioned it as the invasion of the Indians. 

Some people, after reading this about the old Met- 
ropolitans, will think they were a lot of ''topers." They 
were not, but nearly all New York boys and, and, as all 
big city boys, mix in with all kinds of people, and go in 
saloons. They drink a glass of beer instead of soft 
stuff and they did not indulge in it, but mere habit. 
And in those days, the public knew all the players and 
associated with them, and they understand the game and 
could give the ball players an argument on the game. 
They did not go to the grounds and shout at the ball 
player if he made a bad play, and clap and stamp their 
feet to try and rattle the other club's pitcher. They 
were built of the right stuff, and wanted to see the 
home club win, but they had to do it without any help 
from the audience. 

They loved the old game and treated all players alike, 
by applauding all good plays made in the game. 

And big crowds attended the games then. If a club 

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was well up in the race, all big cities averaged five or 
six thousand to a game; and from ten to fifteen thou- 
sand on Saturday, and would pacfc the grounds on 
holidays and root for the home club to win, and had 
just as much enthusiasm in them as they have now. 

I am going to wind up this old marathon manu- 
script by throwing a few bouquets to those who justly 
deserve credit for making baseball what it is to-day, 
and that is, the newspapers, who gave it so much space, 
and the reporters, who scored the games in a broad- 
minded way, which made the ball players cover 
ground when they knew they would get the benefit 
of a doubt, which was the best improvement ever put 
in the national game, and made all ball players cover 
a lot of ground, especially good players, that could get 
any thing hit at them, and were stuck on having fine 
averages ; get all the speed they had in them into the 
game. Where, in the old days, they would not pull 
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and try to improve the game ; but stuck to the old method 
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